[TheOldLady]

Eek! NO! I wasn't laughing at his being beaten up. I love and respect Civ. A LOT.

I was laughing at how ignorant his critics are about him.

Thanks for riding your white charger to the rescue, though. :-)

[muawiyah]

Frankly I never accept at face value any claim that something has anything to do with Mormonism until i see Hugh Nibley's name on it. Having read a great deal of his material let me say this about that ~ he tends to be inconclusive on the darndest things!

Here's the only way to think about some mysterious rock in the middle of no where with misspelled Hebraic inscriptions ~

(1) That you are in Israel, Jordan or Syria., or (2) Why is there only one of these things around?

Every now and then somebody finds something stored in the Prado in Madrid. I'd look there ~ this was a piece of Spain for 300 years!

[colorado tanker]

This really turned into an "interesting" thread, eh?

I did a little googling and several sources confirm that the stone has been cleaned, so no chance of examining a patina. It's so heavy it can't be moved to a museum.